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Excellent insults that have fallen out of fashion / you don’t hear anymore…

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FusionChefGeoff · 19/07/2025 20:11

Twerp
Berk

I want to teach my 10 and 13 year olds some ‘funny’ insults from back in the day - any others that need resurrecting??

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trainedopossum · 20/07/2025 02:41

Emonade · 19/07/2025 23:24

Pinhead
bozo

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Ah, I say bozo to make DH laugh 🤡 ‘What kind of bozos do they have running this joint anyway?!’

Elderflower14 · 20/07/2025 02:52

billycat321 · 20/07/2025 02:22

All fur coat and no knickers
Red hat, no drawers (of someone wearing a red hat)
As daft as a brush
Must have been hiding behind the door when good looks were given out
A face like a slapped arse

My friends late husband was a roofer. I had a red hat and he regularly used to holler "Ello Mrs Red Hat No knickers!" at me when I cycled past him on my bicycle.. I wore my hat to his funeral! ♥️

Ezesonfire · 20/07/2025 03:57

I call my dog most of these 🤣

Pilchard
Prick
Bellend
Dipstick
Numpty
Dickhead
Toad
Turdburger

One I thought of only a few days ago -

Ponce

BeanQuisine · 20/07/2025 03:58

Pillock.

MyLov · 20/07/2025 03:58

soupyspoon · 19/07/2025 20:22

Nincompoop. My nan used to say that a lot

Nincompoop is a brilliant word. We definitely need to bring this one back.

MyLov · 20/07/2025 04:00

Dragonflea28 · 20/07/2025 01:10

All fur coat and no knickers
Their lift doesn't reach the top floor
She's got more front than Blackpool ,
A few sandwiches short of a picnic

We used to say “she’s got more front than Tescos”

sashh · 20/07/2025 05:22

Eastendboysandwestendgirls · 19/07/2025 20:13

My father uses "wassock" a lot. I like "Spanner".

A sporny eyed toad faced wassock?

aGirlLikeJesamine · 20/07/2025 05:41

PeapodMcgee · 20/07/2025 00:10

Err, why are people falling over themselves to quote insults that they apparently think are "excellent", but are actually homophobic, disablist, racist, anti-semitic, sexist.. And only a few are objecting?

The thread isn't 'old insults that are offensive and have fallen out of fashion for good reason'

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it makes a refreshing change

Haud yer wheesht -

Steelworks · 20/07/2025 05:43

Gorden Bennett - more something you say when yig’re surprised by something , rather than calling someone it.

Blueyshift · 20/07/2025 06:36

Nounedit
window* licker (plural window lickers*)

  1. (British, slang, offensive) A mentallyhandicapped person.

I wouldn't use window licker it's as bad as the joey one.

Ragger
I haven't heard anyone out of the North use it but must be short for raggamuffin.

Galoot- for a clumsy person.

Daftie
Doyle

Gompah- I remember spilling my sisters tea and she shouted. You absolute gompah.

SprayWhiteDung · 20/07/2025 06:50

Blueyshift · 20/07/2025 06:36

Nounedit
window* licker (plural window lickers*)

  1. (British, slang, offensive) A mentallyhandicapped person.

I wouldn't use window licker it's as bad as the joey one.

Ragger
I haven't heard anyone out of the North use it but must be short for raggamuffin.

Galoot- for a clumsy person.

Daftie
Doyle

Gompah- I remember spilling my sisters tea and she shouted. You absolute gompah.

We always shout "You proper gompah!" every time Will Gompertz comes on the telly!

No insult to him personally; it's just the name!

mrschocolatte · 20/07/2025 07:35

I used to get comments a lot when I was young about being fat. After one quite brutal session my lovely English teacher found me crying in the playground. She taught me a great response for the next time it happened, which was ‘Well, at least I can lose weight if I want. You’re stuck with that face for the rest of your life.’ It proved quite effective when required.

Lobelia123 · 20/07/2025 07:40

Plank

WinnieTheWhat · 20/07/2025 07:49

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piffy_on_a_rock_bun

@Comtesse we tend to use it when someone in the family is just standing/ sitting there looking gormless 😄

RiverGod · 20/07/2025 07:50

WinnieTheWhat · 19/07/2025 21:32

Did you come down with the dew?

Are your ears painted on?

Why are you sitting there like Piffy on a rock bun?

I was always told Piffy was a bakers cat who was told off for sitting on the rock buns!

billysboy · 20/07/2025 07:53

Face like it’s been set on fire and beaten out with a shovel
legs off bay watch , face off crimewatch
Do you think I just fell out of that tree ?

Clot is one I haven’t heard in ages

JudyP · 20/07/2025 07:57

numpty

HelpMeGetThrough · 20/07/2025 08:03

Knobhead
Face like a slapped arse
Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

LillyPJ · 20/07/2025 08:03

billysboy · 20/07/2025 07:53

Face like it’s been set on fire and beaten out with a shovel
legs off bay watch , face off crimewatch
Do you think I just fell out of that tree ?

Clot is one I haven’t heard in ages

I'd forgotten 'clot'! Seem to remember it being used in the name of a character in a comic. Corporal Clot? There was also 'Major (?) Blink, the short-sighted gink' but I don't remember any of us using the word 'gink' as an insult. (Apologies for any misrememberings. I'd welcome being corrected)

LillyPJ · 20/07/2025 08:05

Update... Corporal Clott, in The Dandy, 1960.

LillyPJ · 20/07/2025 08:07

And 'Colonel Blink, The Short-Sighted Gink' was in The Beezer.

MyDadWasAnArse · 20/07/2025 08:20

Littlestmoo · 19/07/2025 23:46

‘Couldn’t catch a pig in a ginnel’ is one of my favourites

Alternatively, can't stop a cat in an alley.

ohheck28 · 20/07/2025 08:23

Lanky streak of piss.
Not an insult but ‘put wood in the hole’ for shutting the door. And ‘up the wooden hill’ for going upstairs.

Needlenardlenoo · 20/07/2025 08:57

Thou art better door than window! For person standing between you and TV. Yorkshire accent required.

See also: Tha great lummox.

JudgeJ · 20/07/2025 09:10

MyLov · 20/07/2025 04:00

We used to say “she’s got more front than Tescos”

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NW version was 'more front than Blackpool'.